JELENA JOCIC EXHIBITION: “PROSTIRANJA”
“SALON 77” /July 16 – August 7/
She was born in Belgrade in 1970. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1997, at the Department of Graphics, received her master’s degree in 2000, and received her doctorate and the title of Doctor of Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts within the University of Arts in Belgrade in 2017. During her undergraduate studies, she was a recipient of a scholarship from the Republic Foundation for the Development of Scientific and Artistic Youth of Serbia. In the period from 1998 to 2002, as part of a project for talented individuals, she worked at the Department of Graphics at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade.
Since 2003, she has been working as a professor of professional studies at the Academy of Professional Studies Polytechnic, at the Department of Design. So far, she has had several solo exhibitions and over two hundred group exhibitions in the country and abroad. She has exhibited in New York, Paris, Luxembourg, Liege, Quebec, Thessaloniki, São Paulo, Seoul, Madrid, Budapest, Istanbul, Stockholm, Skopje and at many international graphic arts biennials and triennials. She is the winner of several awards in the field of graphic art (Petar Lubarda, Đorđe Andrejević – Kun, 8th and 9th Biennial of Yugoslav Student Graphics).
The most significant awards in the field of graphics are:
The Graphic Collective Mali Pechat Award in 2010 and the Veliki Pechat Award in 2021. The work “Bridges” is in the collection of the Belgrade City Museum. Her works are included in the Purchase of Works of Art of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia (2005, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018). She has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS) since 1998, and on the board of directors of ULUS from 2022-2023. She has been a member of the Artistic Council and the board of directors of the Grafički kolektiv Gallery in Belgrade since 2011. She was elected as the president of the board of directors of the GK at the GK assembly held on 06.07.2023.
Jelena Jocić continues her artistic research, relating to the existing interiors of large industrial centers, finding in them the idea for defining an ideal space. By merging the visual and the perceptual into one whole, he develops a unique artistic language in whose context visions of an ideal space can be glimpsed. Through his own photographic observation, he singles out the dominant motif of empty, devastated industrial complexes, approaching the framing process that hints at transience, alienation and loneliness. Continuing the process of creation, in addition to nurturing visual relationships, the network of crossed lines and collage pop art pieces also includes a certain number of artifacts.
Through the play of light and geometric surfaces, as well as the assembly procedures used by constructivist artists, he explores the boundaries of personal and private space.
The architectural specificity of the interior, which associates with metal structures, served as a metaphor for the boundary that separates the artist from the existing environment, entering new timeless dimensions.